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at our local high school we have 57 people in the shelter now. so, yeah, it was quite the scene. >> so where do you even start in the morning, mayor? >> well, we're going to do village -- data assessment at 7:00 once the sun comes up and really first and foremost will be working with con ed to make sure we can get power restored to our village and see how we can help to get our downtown back to being the vibrant commerce center that it was before sandy arrived. >> unbelievable. dennis pilla, the mayor of port chester, new york, good luck to you and thanks so much for talking to us. at the height of the storm a generator went out and 215 patients had to be evacuated from nyu medical center here in manhattan. nbc's rehema ellis has been there since the beginning of the evacuation and joins us now with an update. when we spoke last hour they were still evacuating, rehema, have they finished yet? >> reporter: not yet, chris. this has been a long night. it's often long nights in hospitals, but i'm not certain how much sleep any of these patients got b
at our local high school we have 57 people in the shelter now. so, yeah, it was quite the scene. >> so where do you even start in the morning, mayor? >> well, we're going to do village -- data assessment at 7:00 once the sun comes up and really first and foremost will be working with con ed to make sure we can get power restored to our village and see how we can help to get our downtown back to being the vibrant commerce center that it was before sandy arrived. >>...
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local officials made some local sites available for people to stay in, but some of those places had to be responded to by first responders today. some of those people had to be rescued. but the important thing in what chris was saying, they believe there are several hundred people sheltering in their homes even in the face of rising flood waters. so that's something that local officials and local law enforcement is keeping a close eye on and those people are in per ill. that's where near the storm came ashore. it doesn't mean the flood waters will stop rising or the threat is over. sandy is claiming the first three casualties that we know of tonight in the united states. the new york city affiliate wnbc is reporting that a 30-year-old man was found dead trapped by a fallen tree. another person has died after a tree fell on them in connecticut. and the associated press is reporting that there was another storm-related fatality, a traffic accident in maryland. to the east of the eye of the storm, authorities having warning that new york city and long island could get the worst of the sto
local officials made some local sites available for people to stay in, but some of those places had to be responded to by first responders today. some of those people had to be rescued. but the important thing in what chris was saying, they believe there are several hundred people sheltering in their homes even in the face of rising flood waters. so that's something that local officials and local law enforcement is keeping a close eye on and those people are in per ill. that's where near the...
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they were all working with the local authorities and were able to do it pretty smoothly. they've stopped search and rescue efforts for tonight and say they've gotten all of the elderly and handicapped people out of the area. they will do it if there are emergency situations. they're not entirely sure how many are left in the houses. we did speak with some who said they were going to stay regardless, they didn't feel like it was much of a threat. the high tide, though comes in at midnight tonight and they are concerned about getting another four feet of water. right now it's receding a lot since we've been here for the past few hours the entire day mostly. we can show you what it looks like here and this is certainly what it looks like. you can hear the sounds of the activity here and the generators and sirens every once in a while but wove a hard time conveying is what it smells like. there's a lot of gasoline, a lot of sewage. you don't want to imagine, rachel. what's in all this water. >> and everybody needs to take high tide seriously. one of the things leaders are tel
they were all working with the local authorities and were able to do it pretty smoothly. they've stopped search and rescue efforts for tonight and say they've gotten all of the elderly and handicapped people out of the area. they will do it if there are emergency situations. they're not entirely sure how many are left in the houses. we did speak with some who said they were going to stay regardless, they didn't feel like it was much of a threat. the high tide, though comes in at midnight...
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they were all working with local authorities and able to do it smoothly. they stopped search and rescue efforts for tonight. they have gotten all of the elderly and handicap out of the area. they will do it if there are emergency situations. they are not sure how many people are left in the the houses. we spoke to some people who said they were going to stay regardless. they didn't feel like it was much of a threat. the high tide though comes in at midnight tonight and they are concerned about getting another four feet of water. it's receded a lot. we can show you what it looks like here. you can hear the sounds of the activity here and the generators and the sirens every once in awhile. we have a hard time conveying what it smells like. there's a lot of gasoline, a lot of sewage. you don't want to imagine what's in all this water right now. >> everybody needs to take that high tide seriously as we know that's one of the things leaders are saying is to think this is necessarily done. katy tur, thank you. much of the damage from sandy came from the water pu
they were all working with local authorities and able to do it smoothly. they stopped search and rescue efforts for tonight. they have gotten all of the elderly and handicap out of the area. they will do it if there are emergency situations. they are not sure how many people are left in the the houses. we spoke to some people who said they were going to stay regardless. they didn't feel like it was much of a threat. the high tide though comes in at midnight tonight and they are concerned about...
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the new york city mayor's office reports that local 911 operators have been overwhelmed getting 10,000 calls in half an hour. ten times the normal number. one of the most critical situations that they're dealing with right now involves a big hospital here in new york. that's the nyu langone medical center. 215 patients, even as we speak, from adult critical care, pediatric critical care, neonatal intensive care, all being evacuated out of that hospital, moved to nearby facilities because the backup generator at nyu went down. let's get a check of the latest. let's go back to nbc news meteorologist bill karins. bill, what have you got for us? >> these things are going to continue to develop through the night but all the big issues that were caused in the new york city area was because of the high tide, the historic, epic if you want to call it that high tide. the only reason they use epic is that's never happened before. we shattered the previous record high tide we had in 1960 with donna. that's why new yorksy we're talking so much about it, not because we're here. if it was any other
the new york city mayor's office reports that local 911 operators have been overwhelmed getting 10,000 calls in half an hour. ten times the normal number. one of the most critical situations that they're dealing with right now involves a big hospital here in new york. that's the nyu langone medical center. 215 patients, even as we speak, from adult critical care, pediatric critical care, neonatal intensive care, all being evacuated out of that hospital, moved to nearby facilities because the...
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issued by your local county. your voter registration card comes on a form that includes a lot of information about the election. like you see here. important election dates. then it says, november 6th, 2012. which, of course, is the really important election date. now, there are lots of americans who speak spanish in arizona, and so the voter registration card form is also written in spanish. and then what does it say is the date for the election day? the spanish part of it, oh, noviembre 8th. it says in english the election is november 6th, but in spanish it says november 8th. two days of the election. seriously? this dark political art comes courtesy of the elections office for maricopa county, arizona, in phoenix, the most populist county in arizona by far. more people in the state live there than anywhere else in the state. in maricopa county the elections department handed out in their office voter registration cards with the wrong date for voting in spanish only. they say they're not sure how many voters go
issued by your local county. your voter registration card comes on a form that includes a lot of information about the election. like you see here. important election dates. then it says, november 6th, 2012. which, of course, is the really important election date. now, there are lots of americans who speak spanish in arizona, and so the voter registration card form is also written in spanish. and then what does it say is the date for the election day? the spanish part of it, oh, noviembre 8th....
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michigan, the low point definitely came earlier that same day in an interview with an award-winning local report from flint, michigan. terry camp, and mr. camp introduced his interview like this. >> i wanted to ask him about the gun violence in our cities. cities like flint and saginaw. let's listen in, this did not end well. >> gun violence and gun policy have not been big issues in the presidential campaign thus far and that probably makes sense. the president's record is signing a bill that allowed people to carry guns in national parks and another allowing people to carry guns on amtrak. which might come in handy when you decide to go hunting in the quiet car. it's not been a policy focus of this it president. and because of that, it's not been contested ground in the presidential race thus far. despite that, though, this reporter really wanted to ask paul ryan about gun violence. and it makes sense. last year flint, michigan, was ranked the most violent city in the united states of america. today 70 miles south in detroit, police staged a rally telling people to enter of detroit at t
michigan, the low point definitely came earlier that same day in an interview with an award-winning local report from flint, michigan. terry camp, and mr. camp introduced his interview like this. >> i wanted to ask him about the gun violence in our cities. cities like flint and saginaw. let's listen in, this did not end well. >> gun violence and gun policy have not been big issues in the presidential campaign thus far and that probably makes sense. the president's record is signing...